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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2010-03-02 17:24:19 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-03-19 10:17:53 -0400
commit352fa6ad16b89f8ffd1a93b4419b1a8f2259feab (patch)
treeb08df3f006762cc213543f2ccd1095f2d9afab52 /include
parent87a6aca504d65f242589583e04df5e74b5eae1fe (diff)
tty: Take a 256 byte padding into account when buffering below sub-page units
The TTY layer takes some care to ensure that only sub-page allocations are made with interrupts disabled. It does this by setting a goal of "TTY_BUFFER_PAGE" to allocate. Unfortunately, while TTY_BUFFER_PAGE takes the size of tty_buffer into account, it fails to account that tty_buffer_find() rounds the buffer size out to the next 256 byte boundary before adding on the size of the tty_buffer. This patch adjusts the TTY_BUFFER_PAGE calculation to take into account the size of the tty_buffer and the padding. Once applied, tty_buffer_alloc() should not require high-order allocations. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tty.h9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index 568369a8630..593228a520e 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -70,12 +70,13 @@ struct tty_buffer {
70 70
71/* 71/*
72 * We default to dicing tty buffer allocations to this many characters 72 * We default to dicing tty buffer allocations to this many characters
73 * in order to avoid multiple page allocations. We assume tty_buffer itself 73 * in order to avoid multiple page allocations. We know the size of
74 * is under 256 bytes. See tty_buffer_find for the allocation logic this 74 * tty_buffer itself but it must also be taken into account that the
75 * must match 75 * the buffer is 256 byte aligned. See tty_buffer_find for the allocation
76 * logic this must match
76 */ 77 */
77 78
78#define TTY_BUFFER_PAGE ((PAGE_SIZE - 256) / 2) 79#define TTY_BUFFER_PAGE (((PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct tty_buffer)) / 2) & ~0xFF)
79 80
80 81
81struct tty_bufhead { 82struct tty_bufhead {